POSTER: computer news || AMD ITSELF WOULD LIKE TO BELIEVE THAT MOBILE PROCESSORS RYZEN HAVE ALREADY BEEN RELEASED

DATE:2017-09-08

AMD employee got the impression that recently presented Lenovo notebooks based on mobile PRO class processors use the Zen architecture, but we well remember that Ryzen PRO in the serial version is only desktop processors, while the mobile Bristol Ridge with the computing cores of the more mature generation of Excavator are just the basis of the new Lenovo notebook models.

The participants of the discussion on Twitter also point out the misunderstanding of AMD representatives. Even the material on the release of new Lenovo laptops on the referenced AMD link contains direct references to the Bristol Ridge processors:

The proximity of heterogeneous processors in AMD's production program can mislead even employees of the company, not to mention ordinary buyers. We hope that our explanations will help readers not to make hasty conclusions on the base of loud statements by AMD.

AMD ITSELF WOULD LIKE TO BELIEVE THAT MOBILE PROCESSORS RYZEN HAVE ALREADY BEEN RELEASED

Vega 20 can stand on the conveyor TSMC, and this graphics processor will be produced using 7-nm technology using CoWoS-packaging. The Vega 20 family should find application in computational accelerations. If we take into account the anticipated production time of Vega 20 (next year) and the process technology used, we can say with certainty that this graphics solution belongs to the Navi architecture.
The same resource informs that SPIL will be engaged in packing Vega 11, which will soon unite with ASE, also involved in production of Vega 10. The source repeatedly attributes Vega 11 to "the next generation of AMD graphics solutions." Talking about positioning Vega 11 relative to Vega 10 is premature, because even using a different memory than HBM2 does not allow to say that Vega 11 will replace the current Polaris. Issue Vega 11 will GlobalFoundries, but the membership of a specific technical process is not yet specified. This symbol is surrounded by secrets and intrigue, as far as we can judge the information we have from sources that deserve to be ignored by caustic critics.

AMD VEGA 20 WILL FIND APPLICATION IN ACCELERATING COMPUTATIONS

POSTER: computer news || PRE-ORDERS FOR NEW IPHONE START NEXT WEEK

DATE:2017-09-07

Acceptance of preliminary orders for new iPhones will start next week, a few days after the official announcement. This is reported by the portal AppleInsider referring to sources among German mobile operators.

Sources of the publication declassified the date of the start of pre-orders for the new iPhone. According to them, in the countries that will enter the so-called "first wave", the pre-order reception will begin next Friday, September 15. Sales of new iPhone Apple plans to launch a week after the start of pre-orders, on September 22. Recall last year, the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus were introduced on September 7, the start of pre-orders took place on September 9, and they were on sale on September 16.

iPhone 7s, iPhone 7s Plus and iPhone 8 will be presented at a special event Apple next Tuesday, September 12th , at the Steve Jobs Theater. Also in this Apple will show the third generation of smart watches with 4G LTE support and a new Apple TV set with support for 4K.

PRE-ORDERS FOR NEW IPHONE START NEXT WEEK

With the release of the new version of GPU-Z utility, a lot of topics appeared on the pages of the Reddit resource discussing the features of displaying the characteristics of individual Radeon RX Vega 56 instances. The fact is that version 2.3.0 of this utility is able to display the functional blocks of the graphics processor available for activation. The speed with the "native" BIOS from Radeon RX Vega 56 is not affected in any way, but with the BIOS firmware from Radeon RX Vega 64,
some users note the performance increase of the video card.

In the initial state, the Radeon RX Vega 64 has 4,096 stream processors and 256 texture sampling units, and the Radeon RX Vega 56 has 3584 stream processors and 224 texture sampling units. The authors of the transformation experiments began to name the intermediate variants "Radeon RX Vega 57", "Radeon RX Vega 58", "Radeon RX Vega 59" and so on.

Theoretical consensus so far sounds like this: some Vega 10 graphics processors used by Radeon RX Vega 56 video cards have only partially blocked some functional blocks (defective), and "healthy" but "extra" blocks are deactivated programmatically. The GPU-Z 2.3.0 utility "sees" the blocks available for activation, and the BIOS firmware from the Radeon RX Vega 64 helps to "revive" them. After the last operation, the nominal frequencies also increase, so the nature
of the increase in performance after such transformations needs to be clearly understood.